Politics

For instance, in a meeting he held on July 29 at Blair House in Washington DC with his classmates, members of the US War College class of 1980, the President told them that John Kerry, […]

Reuben Abati just complained his phones had stopped ringing, after the frenetic racket of his Goodluck Jonathan years.  Would somebody, somewhere please give him a call, on compassionate grounds, to save his golden phones from […]

Ever since Bola Ahmed Tinubu, leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), remarked that President Muhammadu Buhari deserved to go on honeymoon rather than be hassled by growing demands to lift the pace of governance, […]

News coming from the national secretariat of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Abuja further confirms that the former ruling party is bleeding externally and internally. Two months after the party parted with power, having […]

I cannot claim to know Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, the man who was the House minority leader of the 7th House of Representatives. He contested for the speakership of the 8th House of Representatives and failed […]

It is no longer a secret that since Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki was elected as the President of the 8th Senate on June 9, 2015, Predident Muhammadu Buhari has not officially engaged with him. Were […]

The National Publicity Secretary of Africa’s biggest opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olisa Metuh is in deep…(you know what). It is now his onerous task to first whitewash an administration that is […]

  President of Aka Ikenga, the Igbo intelligentsia group, Chief God­dy Uwazurike, has said that President Muhammadu Buhari, in his few months in office, has discrimi­nated against the Igbo. According to the legal luminary, out […]

President Muhammadu Buhari is a very frank man. And frankly he appears to be telling Nigerians to their face that he can afford to alienate a significant portion of his constituency and still leave a […]

Although he claims to have quit party politics, former vice-presidential candidate to President Muhammadu Buhari during the 2011 presidential election, Pastor Tunde Bakare, is still one of the president’s most admired allies, writes Shola Oyeyipo,THIS […]

Honourable Femi Gbajabiamila, an APC stalwart, has just become the Majority Leader of the House of Representatives. According to news reports, his emergence was preceded by weeks of tense horse-trading and negotiation between rival factions […]

‘Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so’ — Charles de Gaulle The high-pitched political temperature in the country is subsiding. And […]

SINCE President Muhammadu Buhari returned from the United States (US) trip, the question on the lips of many Nigerians is: after the visit, what next? Besides, they are eager to know the policy direction of […]

There’s  a growing, observable trend since President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration began on May 29, it is the effort that has gone to discredit the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan. My taking on this issue […]

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari’s visit to America to see President Barack Obama was quite obviously the most controversial foreign trip taken by a Nigerian leader in recent history. It was famous for its jamboree atmospherics, though […]

EVERY society has its stock of critics and cynics. Quite often, the former are preferred to the latter because in the course of their criticism, some critics would throw in alternatives or proffer solutions to […]

  Yesterday Justice Oloyede Folahanmi, a judge of the Osun State High Court, would have made history for the second time as the first judge to testify before a legislative committee on why she believed […]

So I want to say particularly to the young people here today, Kenya is on the move. Africa is on the move. You are poised to play a bigger role in this world, as the […]

The worst-case scenario for Africa in 2050 is more of the same Africa of 2015. However, the more realistic prospect lies somewhere between that and my utopia. Thirty-five years in the life of any human […]

Parliamentary forgery — geez, isn’t that a violent contradiction in terms?  Parliamentary language is the best of language.  Parliamentary conduct is the best of conduct. So, parliamentary immunity is fair exchange for parliamentary language and […]